Fire Safety (Temporary Buildings for Short Term Events — Exemption) Order 2023

No. S 508

Fire Safety Act 1993

Fire Safety
(Temporary Buildings for Short Term Events —
Exemption) Order 2023

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 103 of the Fire Safety Act 1993, the Minister for Home Affairs makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1. This Order is the Fire Safety (Temporary Buildings for Short Term Events — Exemption) Order 2023 and comes into operation on 18 July 2023.

Exemptions

2.—(1) A person specified in the first column of the First Schedule is exempt from sections 35, 55, 56, 57, 58 and 60 of the Act in respect of any fire safety works in any temporary building (called in this Order the relevant building) that is built or erected by the person for the purpose of the event specified opposite the person in the second column of that Schedule.

(2) The person mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) is also exempt from the following provisions in respect of the relevant building:

(a)	regulation 5 of the Fire Safety (Fire Safety Managers) Regulations (Rg 3) in respect of the duties that the fire safety manager is exempt under sub‑paragraph (3);
(b)	regulation 8(3) of the Fire Safety (Fire Safety Managers) Regulations;
(c)	regulation 3(d) and (e) of the Fire Safety (Emergency Response Plan) Regulations (Rg 4);
(d)	regulation 3(f) of the Fire Safety (Emergency Response Plan) Regulations in respect of the records specified in regulation 3(e) of those Regulations.

(3) The fire safety manager appointed in respect of the relevant building under section 38 of the Act (read with paragraph 2(1) of the Fire Safety (Premises Requiring Fire Safety Manager and Company Emergency Response Team) Notification 2020 (G.N. No. S 768/2020)) is exempt from having to carry out the duties mentioned in regulations 7(1)(ea), (k) and (n) and (2)(a)(i) and 8(1) of the Fire Safety (Fire Safety Managers) Regulations.

(4) The Company Emergency Response Team established in respect of the relevant building under section 38 of the Act (read with paragraph 2(1) of the Fire Safety (Premises Requiring Fire Safety Manager and Company Emergency Response Team) Notification 2020) is exempt from regulation 4(c) of the Fire Safety (Company Emergency Response Team) Regulations 2013 (G.N. No. S 540/2013).

(5) In this paragraph, “temporary building” has the meaning given by section 2(1) of the Building Control Act 1989.

Conditions of exemption

3. The exemptions under paragraph 2(1) and (2) are subject to the conditions specified in the Second Schedule.

Made on 14 July 2023.

PANG KIN KEONG

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Home Affairs,
Singapore.

[112/2/030; AG/LEGIS/SL/109A/2020/7 Vol. 1]

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